In this podcast, I chat with Threatpost.com co-editor Dennis Fisher about the big news coming out of the Black Hat security conference. We discuss the attacks using SMS and MMS, rootkits in keyboards and BIOSes, vulnerabilities in SSL and the response from vendors to these problems. Listen here [mp3].
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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho DanchevBlack Hat recap podcast: SSL, SMS, BIOS rootkits
Summary: In this podcast, I chat with Threatpost.com co-editor Dennis Fisher about the big news coming out of the Black Hat security conference. We discuss the attacks using SMS and MMS, rootkits in keyboards and BIOSes, vulnerabilities in SSL and the response from vendors to these problems. Listen here [mp3].
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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.
Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.
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Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign, responds to these Black Hat presentations in his new SSL blogpost:
https://blogs.verisign.com/ssl-blog/2009/07/busy_day_at_black_hat.php
He fills some of the holes that these researchers dug.
Also, VeriSign issued a press pelease confirming that all SSL and EV SSL Certificates remain safe From potential threats:
http://bit.ly/yQyiB
Follow me on Twitter @allenkelly!
https://blogs.verisign.com/ssl-blog/2009/07/busy_day_at_black_hat.php
He fills some of the holes that these researchers dug.
Also, VeriSign issued a press pelease confirming that all SSL and EV SSL Certificates remain safe From potential threats:
http://bit.ly/yQyiB
Follow me on Twitter @allenkelly!
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